{"quotes":[{"text":"Are you in pain?' I asked, because I know that everything in the world that matters shows up as some kind of pain. Or pang. Joy included.","author":"Andrea Seigel","tags":["duality","feelings","ghosts","hospitals","meaning","romance","sickness"],"id":12636,"author_id":"Andrea+Seigel"},{"text":"Dr Power stood up. “Because your staff are not components that can be fitted in, or replaced when they are unpredictable, or when they are simply being human. Because our patients are not playing a game called ‘business’ with profit and loss and winners and losers. Because patients have no choice, but to be patients and it’s our privilege to be in a temporary position where we can help them. And, inevitably, when we ourselves fall ill; when we grow old, then we can only hope that we will receive the help we ourselves need in turn. Because that’s the reality of life. And not some self-aggrandising game'. - Dr Power, speaking in The Good Shepherd.","author":"Hugh Greene","tags":["doctors","health","hospitals","nhs"],"id":23375,"author_id":"Hugh+Greene"},{"text":"If there is one thing I'd learned about hospitals, it's that they aren't interested in healing you. They are interested in stabilizing you, and then everyone is supposed to move on. They go to stabilize some more people, and you go off to do whatever you do. Healing, if it happens at all, is done on your own, long after the hospital has submitted your final insurance paperwork.","author":"Eric Nuzum","tags":["healing","health","healthcare","hospitals"],"id":23654,"author_id":"Eric+Nuzum"},{"text":"Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become the modern instrument of penality? Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?","author":"Michel Foucault","tags":["ity","barracks","discipline","hospitals","prison","prisons","school","schools","surveillance"],"id":34273,"author_id":"Michel+Foucault"},{"text":"We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive.","author":"Pat Barker","tags":["hospitals","mental-illness","ptsd","trauma","war"],"id":49444,"author_id":"Pat+Barker"},{"text":"A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons. The stench of chemicals offends the nose, while tranquillizers substitute for quietness.","author":"Herbert M. Shelton","tags":["hospitals","medical-treatment","medicine","noise","noise-pollution"],"id":51751,"author_id":"Herbert+M.+Shelton"},{"text":"Why? As much fun as a hospital sounds, I'd rather spend the evening dancing with an amazing, smart, funny, interesting, beautiful girl who has the most incredible green eyes I've ever seen. Sophie, will you go to the dance with me?","author":"Leslea Wahl","tags":["choices","compliments","dance-with-me","hospitals"],"id":68797,"author_id":"Leslea+Wahl"},{"text":"A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is only one hospital, a single station; there are hundreds of thousands in Germany, hundreds of thousands in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.","author":"Erich Maria Remarque","tags":["hospitals","war"],"id":102674,"author_id":"Erich+Maria+Remarque"},{"text":"Is there anywhere else to sleep tonight... Anywhere?' I pleaded.There's Mei's office, but you'll have to sleep on the floor I'm afraid.' Mei was one of the Ward 9D dietitians.'I'll sleep on the floor any day. I'm used to it back in the Islands,' I laughed tiredly.I settled down on the floor. The three rugs I had brought to cushion my back worked surprisingly well. It was almost more comfortable than the thin mats on the cold concrete floors of the fales in Samoa. The idea of sleeping in someone's office was the best idea I had had all year. I decided that I would keep this secret to myself.","author":"Ta'afuli Andrew Fiu","tags":["beds","hospitals","samoan","sleep"],"id":106141,"author_id":"Ta%27afuli+Andrew+Fiu"},{"text":"I will be conveyed to an Emergency Room of some kind, where I will be detained as long as I do not respond to questions, and then, when I do respond to questions, I will be sedated; so it will be an inversion of standard travel, the ambulance and ER: I'll make the journey first, then depart.","author":"David Foster Wallace","tags":["consciousness","health","hospitals"],"id":106147,"author_id":"David+Foster+Wallace"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}